If you’re looking for a book about Thomas Jefferson’s obsession with tracking weather and going over in minute This was incredibly, painfully boring.
If you’re looking for a book about Thomas Jefferson’s obsession with tracking weather and going over in minute detail how America, England, and France all had terrible harvests, well, this is the book for you. I don’t know what I was expecting but… talking about failed wheat crops over and over and over again wasn’t it. ...more
I think this may have been a little… too summarized for me. It expected me to know more about the Cold War than I did, I feel? Like I did learn thingsI think this may have been a little… too summarized for me. It expected me to know more about the Cold War than I did, I feel? Like I did learn things but it also sort of expected me to know about the Cold War and let’s be real all I know is MAD and USSR bad USA good. (...more
I’m pretty sure none of this was new writing, all of it was from already posted articles, which was fine I had never read any of them, but kind of annI’m pretty sure none of this was new writing, all of it was from already posted articles, which was fine I had never read any of them, but kind of annoying I guess. One of them was a buzzfeed article which… ? kind of makes you doubt the accuracy of these articles but idk maybe BuzzFeed is in fact a bastion of truth in heavy hitting journalism. ...more
I cannot begin to tell you the number of times I fell asleep listening to this. It was incredibly boring. So yeah, Evans did in fact cover every singlI cannot begin to tell you the number of times I fell asleep listening to this. It was incredibly boring. So yeah, Evans did in fact cover every single fact that lead up to Hitler’s rise to power but he also covered *every single fact*
Like come on let’s pick an angle and focus on that. Economic. Political. Social. Moral. Religious. Not everything at once. It was painful.
Not sure how he made Nazi’s boring but man he really did. And he tried to say that anyone could have replaced Hitler and the Nazi party still could have risen and done what it did. Which is… a wild statement. Maybe Goebbels, maybe, but no one else could have had the same cult leader effect on the Nazi party and done what Hitler did. Just. A wild take.
He put down my bro Shirer and he really should not have done that because Rise and Fall was a much better book in that a) I did not fall asleep and b) it was much more entertaining and didn’t feel like it needed to tell me literally every single fact. (Although this book didn’t have all the gross homophobia)
I will absolutely not be continuing this series. That was miserable. ...more
A little too.. speculative on how they felt or what they did. Still good.
Oh also he kept calling the Incan gods “idols” even when he wasn’t quoting soA little too.. speculative on how they felt or what they did. Still good.
Oh also he kept calling the Incan gods “idols” even when he wasn’t quoting someone and that felt kind of gross when he would call the Christian god a god. ...more
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